Each of you will go straight through the gaps in the walls; you will be thrown out toward Harmon.” The Lord is speaking!

The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground.

The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”

This is what the Lord says: “Because Edom has committed three crimes – make that four! – I will not revoke my decree of judgment. He chased his brother with a sword; he wiped out his allies. In his anger he tore them apart without stopping to rest; in his fury he relentlessly attacked them.

“The virgin Israel has fallen down and will not get up again. She is abandoned on her own land with no one to help her get up.”

Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt.